Council Bluffs Lumber Company, 900 South Main Street, corner of Ninth Avenue, are dealers in lumber, lime, coal, etc. Incorporated 1887, with a cash capital of $25,000. R. Stevenson, President; M. J. Irons, Vice-President; H. Stevenson, Secretary and Treasurer. Sales amount annually to $120,000 to $130,000, retail. Their stock includes all kinds of building material and all kinds of coal.

Mr. H. Stevenson was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, December 24, 1859, the son of Hugh and Charlotte (Seelye) Stevenson, natives of Canada, and of Scotch descent. His father died in Nebraska in 1887, aged sixty-five years; and his mother is still living in Ansley, Custer County, Nebraska. In their family were eight children, all of whom are still living excepting one.

Mr. Stevenson, our subject, the third child in the above family, lived in his native State until he was nineteen years of age, and attended the normal school. In 1878 the family removed to Nebraska, where the boys engaged in the rearing of livestock, a business called "ranching." These sons were: Renfrew, now the president of the Council Bluffs Lumber Company; Robert, who is now engaged with the H. Stevenson Lumber Company of Ansley, Nebraska; and our subject, Henry. After two or three years' ranching, they engaged in the lumber business at Riverton, Nebraska, a short time, when Robert went to Franklin, the same State, and opened a lumber yard, and Henry went to Orleans and opened a yard there under the title of The H. & R. Stevenson Lumber Company. After following the business there for two or three years, and establishing yards at Long Island and Almena, Kansas, he, with his brother Robert, consolidated with their father and formed the H. Stevenson Lumber Company at Fullerton, Nebraska, with yards at Genoa, Ansley and Berwin, same State, and this company still exists, now owned and controlled by six brothers: Renfrew, Henry, Robert, Brougham, Scotia and Stymert, Robert being the manager.

In 1887 Henry came to Council Bluffs and took charge of the Council Bluffs Lumber Company, which position he still maintains. Renfrew is vice-president and manager of the Star Union Lumber Company at Omaha, with a capital of $50,000. He is therefore one of the most extensive lumber dealers in this part of the West.

Mr. Henry Stevenson was married at Long Island, Kansas, July 15, 1885, to Miss Minerva Webb, of Orleans, Nebraska, but a native of Michigan, born in April, 1856, a daughter of George A. and _____ (Nichol) Webb, and of English and Scotch origin. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson have two children, Leal and Renfrew N.

Mr. Stevenson affiliates with the Republican party. Is a member of St. Andrew's Society at Council Bluffs, and secretary of the same; also a member of the Board of Trade, and of the Retail Merchant's Association. He is president of the Board of the Iowa Savings and Loan Association of Des Moines. Mrs. Stevenson is a member of the First Baptist Church.